Reality of Life - A Guide to Understanding the Modern-Day TeenagerIn a world where social media, rapid technology, and shifting values shape the next generation, Reality of Life delves into the heart of what it means to grow up today. This insightful and thought-provoking guide explores the challenges, behaviours, and emotions that define modern teenagers - from the fading of moral values to the rise of entitlement, anger, and disconnection.Through real-world reflections an...

Based on the eponymous viral Twitter account, Museum Bums, a celebration of classical art, history, and shapely derrières, encourages readers to learn something new while still managing to have a chuckle.What do Hieronymus Bosch, the Roman cult of Antinous, and the peach emoji all have in common? But of course, butts, of course!Divided into six categories of keisters, this humorous history book takes you on a whirlwind tour of the finest rear ends ...

This volume contains sixteen pieces for the beginning classical guitar duo. Efforts have been made to include composers of note from various periods such as Tchaikovsky, Dowland, Beethoven, Bartok, and Bach, yet the music is not above the abilities of beginning readers. By and large, the key signatures have only one sharp or flat and the accidentals are minimal. The music falls within first position and difficult bar chords have been avoided. The book will provide beginning duos access to ...

This volume is for the advanced guitar duo that is seeking concert-worthy music and a technical challenge. The works transcribed here include selections by Beethoven, de Falla, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Gounod, and others. Much effort was exerted to find works that work well as guitar duos, are not available elsewhere, and yet will be well known to audiences. Like all of the volumes in this series, the works chosen come from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century style...

27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings...On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings.This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgott...

Brought to you by Penguin.***Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction***What do we choose to remember and what do we allow ourselves to forget?Visit the Antidote of Uz – a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind and enter hers.Until the Black Sunday storm, which flattens wheatfields, ...

This book is a collection of poems by someone living with Parkinson's during the Coronavirus crisis.This collection includes poems which attempt to put Parkinson's in its place, poems which make cynical observations on life during the pandemic and poems on a variety of stuff which was rattling around inside the author's head.Mark Coxe was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease fin 2013 after it had crept up on him for years. He was fifty when he received his diagnosis and has...

You've got Parkinson's, but consider yourself lucky because unlike all of the other neurological conditions, it won't kill you, it'll just make your life miserable. That was how I was diagnosed, by an expert. Well, he got the first bit right, I do have Parkinson's. The bit in the middle is up for debate, since the medical profession keep on changing their minds (it might kill me) but the third part was totally wrong. Looking on the bright side my glass is always half full, mostly because o...

**The irresistible follow-up to the hit debut novel Detransition, Baby**A BOOK TO WATCH IN 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, ROLLING STONES AND THE BBC'As innovative, insightful, funny, and confronting as we've come to expect from Peters' work' Independent, Best Books to Look Out for in 2025'A shining talent' Stylist Best Books of 2025'Ho...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Telegraph, Washington Post, The New Yorker. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE.“Like A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic....a heartfelt paean to the consolations of the sublime, where religion and science meet."" -- Telegraph""Read it, then read it again. This is a book full of unexp...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR“A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book ReviewStrange doings in and around a sanitarium expose the horrors that lie beneath the most hallowed ideas**September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health...

Bloomsbury presents The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami, read by Frankie Corzo and Barton Caplan‘A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future’ JENNIFER EGAN‘E****xtraordinary’ RUMAAN ALAM‘Absolutely unputdownable’ SANDRA NEWMANSara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside at the airport. Using data from her dreams, their...